Ted Turner Quotes
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On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.
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Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.
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Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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I did two or three plays every summer.
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I'm an emotional person.
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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know.
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The truth about filmmaking is you have all these ideas and you're trying to convince everybody that they should buy into this idea, but at two o'clock in the morning when you're all on your own you're going, 'Geez, I hope I know what I'm doing. I hope this idea is gonna work.'
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I'll say this: I can't think of one instance in my 20 years in venture capital in which I have wanted to sell a company before the entrepreneur.
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Already, it is later than you think for your earthly life at best, is only a blink of an eye between two eternities.
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I have never been able to see myself as fitting into one category, and I have never been able to limit my contact with people to one group of people.
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I think going public should not be a goal and the more that we make it a goal, the less it will be a goal. It's kind of like, I have three young children and when I tell them to eat vegetables, the last thing they will ever do is eat vegetables. I think it's just this weird thing where entrepreneurs have a reflexive negative reaction when people are pushing for it. I think you have to view going public for what it is, which is a transitional moment where you can consolidate mindshare and win at an even larger scale.
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We don't have a lot more time to deal with climate change, ... We need the right balance between regulation and market-based approaches.
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I see what keeps people young: work!
